Genius Lyrics
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Joni Mitchell – My Old Man
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Joni wrote this song about a fantasy of domesticity that harkens back to her relationship with Graham Nash, which ended while Joni was on a trip to Europe after her announcement
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Joni Mitchell – My Old Man (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / My old man / He's a singer in the park / He's a walker in the rain / He's a dancer in the dark / [Chorus] / We don't need no piece of paper / From the city hall
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Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi
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“Big Yellow Taxi” is Joni Mitchell’s call to action to prevent the damage we are doing to the environment. It refers to lack of human awareness; only too late we recognise the
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Tutu Puoane – My old man (Live)
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[Verse 1] / My old man / He's a singer in the park / He's a walker in the rain / He's a dancer in the dark / [Chorus] / We don't need no piece of paper / From the city hall
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Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi (Live)
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[Verse 1] / They paved paradise and put up a parking lot / With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot / [Chorus] / Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what
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Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi (Live) [2022 Remaster]
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[Verse 1] / They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot / With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot / [Chorus] / Don't it always seem to go? / You don't know
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Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi 2007
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[Verse 1] / So they paved paradise and put up a parking lot / With a pink hotel. a boutique and a swinging night spot / [Chorus] / Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know
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Aoife O'Donovan – Age of Apathy
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Let’s take a ride / I know you love the Taconic at twilight / Go east on 23 / Past the farms and the festival memories / Listening to the Hudson Valley breeze / Oh to be born in
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Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / They paved paradise and put up a parking lot / With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot / [Chorus] / Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what
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Joni Mitchell – For Free (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / I slept last night in a good hotel / I went shopping today for jewels / The wind rushed around in the dirty town / And the children let out from the schools / I was
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Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi (Traffic Jam mix)
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They paved paradise, put up a parking lot / With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hotspot / Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
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Joni Mitchell – Conversation (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / He comes for conversation / I comfort him sometimes / Comfort and consultation / He knows that's what he'll find / I bring him apples and cheeses / He brings me songs
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Joni Mitchell – California
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“California” jumps along in short bursts, the lyrics giving snapshots of Joni’s European itinerary. Then comes the flowing chorus with its hint of tango, its plaintive pedal steel
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Joni Mitchell – Song to a Seagull (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Fly silly seabird / No dreams can possess you / No voices can blame you / For sun on your wings / My gentle relations / Have names they must call me / For loving the
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Joni Mitchell – Willy (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Willy is my child, he is my father / I would be his lady all my life / He says he'd love to live with me / But for an ancient injury / That has not healed / He said I
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Joni Mitchell – Blue (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Blue / Songs are like tattoos / You know I've been to sea before / Crown and anchor me / Or let me sail away / [Verse 2] / Hey, blue / There is a song for you / Ink on
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Joni Mitchell – Rainy Night House (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / It was a rainy night / We took a taxi to your mother's home / She went to Florida and left you / With you father's gun, alone / Upon her small white bed / I fell into a
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Joni Mitchell – The Arrangement (2021 Remaster)
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[Chorus] / You could have been more than a name on the door / On the thirty-third floor in the air / More than a credit card / Swimming pool in the backyard / [Verse 1] / While you
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Joni Mitchell – I Think I Understand (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Daylight falls upon the path, the forest falls behind / Today I am not prey to dark uncertainty / The shadow trembles in its wrath, I've robbed its blackness blind
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Joni Mitchell – The Fiddle and the Drum (2021 Remaster)
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[Intro] / And so once again / My dear Johnny my dear friend / And so once again you are fightin' us all / And when I ask you why / You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall / Oh
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Joni Mitchell – Woodstock (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / I came upon a child of God / He was walking along the road / And I asked him, "Where are you going?" / And this he told me / I'm going on down to Yasgur's Farm / I'm
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Joni Mitchell – Tin Angel (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Varnished weeds in window jars / Tarnished beads on tapestries / Kept in satin boxes are / Reflections of love's memories / Letters from across the seas / Roses dipped
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Joni Mitchell – I Had a King (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / I had a king in a tenement castle / Lately he's taken to painting the pastel walls brown / He's taken the curtains down / He's swept with the broom of contempt / And
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Joni Mitchell – The Last Time I Saw Richard
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“The Last Time I Saw Richard” is the final song on Joni Mitchell’s seminal album, Blue. In many ways, the song functions as a microcosm of the album as a whole, illustrating the
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Joni Mitchell – Furry Sings the Blues
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Based on Joni’s actual – and tense – meeting with the blues legend Furry Lewis, this song features atmospheric harmonica work from Neil Young.
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Joni Mitchell – Blue Boy (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Lady called the blue boy, love / She took him home / Made himself an idol, yes / So he turned to stone / Like a pilgrim she travelled / To place her flowers / Before
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Joni Mitchell – Songs To Aging Children Come (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Through the windless wells of wonder / By the throbbing light machine / In a tea leaf trance or under / Orders from the king and queen / [Chorus] / Songs to aging
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Joni Mitchell – The Gallery (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / When I first saw your gallery / I liked the ones of ladies / Then you began to hang up me / You studied to portray me / In ice and greens / And old blue jeans / And
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Joni Mitchell – Night in the City (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Light up light up / Light up your lazy blue eyes / Moon's up nights up / Takin' the town by surprise / Night time night time / Day left an hour ago / City light time
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Joni Mitchell – The Priest (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / The priest sat in the airport bar / He was wearing his father's tie / And his eyes looked into my eyes so far / Whenever the words ran dry / Behind the lash and the
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Joni Mitchell – Morning Morgantown (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / When morning comes to Morgantown / The merchants roll their awnings down / The milk trucks make their morning rounds / In morning Morgantown / We'll rise up early, with
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Moya Brennan – Big Yellow Taxi
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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot / With a pink hotel, a boutique and / A swinging hot spot / Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what you've got / Till it'
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Joni Mitchell – Just Like This Train
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[Verse 1] / I'm always running behind the time / Just like this train / Shaking into town with the brakes complaining / I used to count lovers like railroad cars / I counted them
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Joni Mitchell – Little Green
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Joni Mitchell wrote “Little Green” in 1966, five years before the release of Blue. Considered one of the most personal tracks on the album, this bittersweet folk ballad was written
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Joni Mitchell – Marcie (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Marcie in a coat of flowers / Steps inside a candy store / Reds are sweet and greens are sour / Still no letter at her door / So she'll wash her flower curtains / Hang
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Joni Mitchell – Cactus Tree (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / There's a man who's been out sailing / In a decade full of dreams / And he takes her to a schooner / And he treats her like a queen / Bearing beads from California
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Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi ('Friends' album version)
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They paved paradise, put up a parking lot / With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hotspot / Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
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Joni Mitchell – Nathan La Franeer (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / I hired a coach to take me from confusion to the plane / And though we shared a common space I know I'll never meet again / The driver with his eyebrows furrowed in the
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Joni Mitchell – California (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Sitting in a park in Paris, France / Reading the news and it sure looks bad / They won't give peace a chance / That was just a dream some of us had / Still a lot of
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Joni Mitchell – Carey (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / The wind is in from Africa / Last night I couldn't sleep / Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here, Carey / But it's really not my home / My fingernails are filthy
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